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| Japan to expand Djibouti military base to counter Chinese influence | | | By Nobuhiro Kubo TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will lease additional land next year to expand a military base in Djibouti, eastern Africa, as a counterweight to what it sees as growing Chinese influence in the region, three Japanese government sources said. China is seeking closer ties with African nations that could help it gain access to natural resources and provide new markets. Earlier this year, Japan also pledged to increase its support to infrastructure, education and healthcare projects in Africa, committing an extra $30 billion in public and private support. |
| U.S. military strikes Yemen after missile attacks on U.S. Navy ship | | | By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military launched cruise missile strikes on Thursday to knock out three coastal radar sites in areas of Yemen controlled by Iran-aligned Houthi forces, retaliating after failed missile attacks this week on a U.S. Navy destroyer, U.S. officials said. The strikes, authorized by President Barack Obama, represent Washington's first direct military action against suspected Houthi-controlled targets in Yemen's conflict. |
| Ecuador moves Assange questioning to November | |  Ecuador has delayed until Nov. 14 its questioning of Julian Assange in a Swedish rape investigation, at the Wikileaks founder's request, the prosecutor's office of the Andean country said on Wednesday. The questioning, led by an Ecuadorian prosecutor and originally scheduled for Monday, could help end a four-year-longdeadlock since Assange took refuge in Ecuador's Londonembassy. "He made the request in a document, via the Ecuadorian ambassador in the United Kingdom, in which he sets out his reasons pertaining to protection guarantees and self-defense," the prosecutor's office said in a statement.
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| Trump touched us inappropriately, two women tell New York Times | |  By Roberta Rampton and Emily Flitter WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two women accused Donald Trump of inappropriate touching in a story posted on the New York Times website on Wednesday, accusations his spokesman called "fiction" but which may further damage the Republican presidential nominee's campaign with only four weeks to go until the Nov. 8 election. One of the women, Jessica Leeds, appeared on camera to recount how Trump grabbed her breasts and tried to put his hand up her skirt in the first class cabin on a flight to New York in or around 1980. Trump's campaign denied there was any truth to the accounts and a senior adviser told Reuters that Trump is preparing a lawsuit against the New York Times.
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| Three South Koreans found shot dead in Philippines amid string of killings | | | The bodies of three South Koreans with gunshot wounds to the head have been found in the Philippines, a South Korean foreign ministry official said on Thursday, the latest in a string of killings of Koreans in the southeast Asian nation. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has waged a ruthless anti-crime campaign since taking office on June 30 in which more than 3,600 people have died in police operations and alleged vigilante killings. |
| Australia charges two teenagers with planning Islamic State-inspired attack | | | Australian police on Thursday charged two 16-year boys with planning an imminent, Islamic State-inspired terror attack. The two teenagers, who were arrested in a western suburb of Sydney on Wednesday, were found to be carrying two knives, though police said the exact target of their alleged plot is unknown. "We did prevent what we would suspect was going to be an attack," said Catherine Burn, deputy commissioner, New South Wales Police. |
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